Fraudsters offer fake jobs - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz

Fraudsters offer fake jobs - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz: "Scammers are targeting international students with fake job offers that come with a $10,000 price tag, a Christchurch student says. Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology commerce student Alex said he had applied for two jobs in the past couple of months where business owners had asked for money in exchange for a full-time position. He had seen the jobs advertised in The Press and in Chinese and Korean-language newspapers. The advertisements were vague about the job position, but said fluency in Mandarin or Korean was essential and gave only a post office box number to send CVs to. Alex went through a long interview process but at the end was told there were no positions available unless he paid a fee of $10,000. 'At the beginning it seemed to be quite a formal thing, but at the end they just asked if you will give them some money to get a job offer,' he said. 'Their reasons are that `you are a graduate and if I put you in here I'm taking a risk', and because you are a risk you need to pay them money.' He said one interview had been in a coffee shop but others were at an office in town. The interviewers were all of Asian descent. 'The company seemed to exist but they don't have much business there. It's basically just a way for them to make money"